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our newest paper is out in JXB today :) academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

advancedsciencenews.com/rose-marks-a-b… fun interview with friend and colleague Jenna Folgeras

such a fabulous event! big thanks to the organizers and excellent speakers who came together to make this happen :)

New Article: "Convergent evolution of desiccation tolerance in grasses" rdcu.be/dLwrw Analysis of diverse resurrection grasses reveals significant genetic convergence and parallel evolution, suggesting a shared foundation for adapting to extreme drought.

A groundbreaking new collaborative Nature Plants paper led by Rose A Marks, a MSU PRI postdoc fellow in the Robert VanBuren Lab, sheds new light on the evolutionary origins & mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants. Read more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/marks…

happy to share our recent work on the convergent evolution of desiccation tolerance in grasses, out in Nature Plants today. big thx to coauthors Llewelyn, Ian Gilman, Jenny Schuster, and Robert VanBuren. support from WALII, MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social, and U.S. National Science Foundation nature.com/articles/s4147…

Resurrection #plants revisited: bridging the gap between #bryophytes and #angiosperms to decode desiccation tolerance 📖 ow.ly/xpso50SryyP 👆 A #Commentary by Rose A Marks on this article by Zhang et al. 👇 📖 ow.ly/Kqob50Stwuf #LatestIssue Wiley Plant Science

the briefing on our recent Nature Plants paper is out. it's just a quick summary, but sometimes it's nice to read a shorter version of the story! nature.com/articles/s4147…

so nice to see this thoughtful and succinct coverage of our recent work. thanks Plantae and mary williams for helping us spread the wonder of resurrection plants!

happy to see our recent work highlighted in PNAS front matter. pnas.org/post/journal-c…

we made the cover!! ☺️

Kicking off Day 2️⃣ of #GESDASummit! Rose A Marks shared her groundbreaking work with desiccation-tolerant plants—offering hope for drought-resistant crops as we face growing climate challenges. Advances in synthetic biology, AI, and genetic engineering are crucial to building

I gave a talk on resurrection plants at #GESDA last week. amazing opportunity to talk about this work with a really diverse group of people including diplomats, policy makers, corporate investors, and academics. hopefully I did these amazing plants justice youtube.com/watch?v=MGEZUm…

Thrilled to share our latest perspective on desiccation-tolerant plants in Nature Communications ! Grateful to Rose A Marks for leading this effort and to all the brilliant minds we collaborated. nature.com/articles/s4146… Dr. Jenna T. B. Ekwealor 🌱💪🏽 Mariana Silva Artur 🇧🇷 Llewelyn Robert VanBuren Thomas Boothby

WALII member, Rose A Marks , brought together a team of 39 researchers across the globe to outline a comprehensive roadmap for advancing research on desiccation tolerance in a newly published paper in Nature Communications Read about it here! plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/2025-…